Ok I have officially started the 28-day Flat Belly Diet following the "Flat Belly Diet Pocket Guide."
Here are some tips when grocery shopping:
Go alone if possible. If you did the 4-day jumpstart diet, it was a very basic meal plan...however, the 28-day diet has a lot of odd things that you might not have in your pantry and it takes a while to hunt them down.
Don't just take the shopping list - you will want to refer to pages 106-110 for specific brands that the diet recommends.
Walmart is going to be your cheapest place to buy most of your stuff, but they don't carry a lot of the more organic choices. Be sure to get as many of your nuts at WM because they are much more expensive elsewhere.
Flaxseed oil can be found in the vitamin aisle (look for it alphabetically).
The black and green olives are rather hard to decide on...there were a lot of different brands to choose from, but I don't think it really makes that much of a difference.
Walmart does sell some 96% Fat Free Whole Wheat tortillas (wraps) on the display with all the other tortillas.
I bought just regular Oscar Myer Oven-roasted sliced chicken (for the "organic" deli chicken breast).
Hellman's sells a Canola Mayo in the condiments aisle (it is on the bottom shelf & looks like regular mayo).
I had to venture to price chopper for more specialty items:
7 Whole Grain Puffs (They are labeled Honey Puffs) cereal
Honey Sesame Kashi TLC Crackers (I found the Fire Roasted Vegetable kind at WM) but I wanted two flavors.
Agave Nector - I asked three people that worked there and they couldn't find it, but it is at the Raymore PC close to my house - look around where you might find sugar & artificial sugars...It looks like a honey bottle (I posted a picture). Lesley mentioned that she uses the nector in place of syrup because it's low glycemic...try amazon or vitacost for specialty items - shipping is cheap and the price is usually cheaper than grocery stores.
Three things I still don't have for this diet:
I haven't found the "meatless" chicken nuggets - will try hyvee tomorrow...
Brazil nuts are not in season and you can't find them anywhere...just sub another nut in it's place.
I searched high and low for sunflower oil...not sure where to find it either...
Good Luck!
Im not on the diet, but I just read your blog. I wanted to recommend trying a vitamin or herb store for the sunflower oil though. I found this link... hope it helps! :)
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the Belton Hy-Vee should have meatless nuggets. Boca is a pretty popular, and Ian's is another one. I can't remember if the Belton Hy-Vee has a health market section. The one in JC does...keep us posted :)
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FYI-Some WM will carry the Agave Nectar as our does here. I have attempted to by it several times, but I just subbed honey instead in some of my recipes.
ReplyDeleteThanks Janell - Our WM might have it too, but I couldn't find anyone to ask and since I really had no idea what I was looking for, I didn't know where to start! :) I will check it out next time I go (not that I will need any for a while - most recipes call for one tsp!!)! :)
ReplyDeleteI found the Agave at WM- in the aisle with baking items. I didn't buy it though because it was kinda spendy and I wasn't sure if it was worth it. Any thoughts on if it's really necessary? thanks! :) ~Amanda
ReplyDeleteAmanda - I think it was worth my money because I put a tsp (that's all you get to use) on my "flaxseed organic waffles" - ugh, right?! Haha - but they are really good and the nectar adds just enough sweetness to them to make it worthwhile...it will take awhile to go thru that bottle, but maybe you could look online for some like my friend Lesley suggested...if you find it cheaper elsewhere, please post it! :)
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